Page Toppers

Quotes

• And now abide faith, hope, and love, these three, but the greatest is love. (1 Corinthians 13:13)
• As long as the grass shall grow, as long as the sun shall shine
• Chance cannot change love, nor time impair, for love is more than a feeling. Love is a decision, a commitment to care forever.
• Commitment looks toward a future that cannot be seen, and promises to be there.
• Don't bother me. I'm living happily ever after.
• A dream that is dreamed by two will always come true
• Every day I fall more in love with you
• For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh; so then they are no longer two, but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let no man separate. (Mark 10:7)
• From long ago and far away love brought us to our wedding day!
• Grow old along with me, the best is yet to be (Robert Browning)
• Happiness is being married to your best friend.
• Henceforth there shall be such a oneness between you, that when one weeps, the other will taste salt.
• I feel sorry for anyone who isn't me today
• I will not love you for the rest of your life, but for the rest of mine.
• I'll build your dreams with these two hands.
• In your life, may your joys be added, sorrows subtracted, cares divided and happiness multiplied.
• I've looked at Love from both sides now (2nd marriage)
• Knowing you'll be in all my tomorrows, makes my today so wonderful!
• Let our love be like an arch - two weaknesses learning together to form one strength.
• Love bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:7-8)
• Love can't ever get better than this
• Love comforts like sunshine after rain.
• Love is patient, love is kind...Love never fails. (1 Corinthians 13:4,8)
• Love is pulling together against all odds
• May I have this dance for the rest of your life?
• May these two hearts forever be, in sweet and loving harmony
• May you know such oneness that when one weeps, the other will taste salt.
• My life is so blessed because you are in it!
• The path to happiness is so narrow that two cannot walk on it unless they become one.
• Side by side, hand in hand, heart to heart.
• Thank you for sharing in the celebration of our love and commitment on our wedding day.
• To have and to hold,
  to love and to cherish,
  from this day forward...
• Today I marry my best friend
  the one I laugh with, live for, dream with...and love.
• Today's happy together times are tomorrow's warm with memory times
• Together is a wonderful place to be.
• Two hearts once joined in friendship, united now with love.
• Two hearts, two minds, two lives - one never-ending love.
• We do not remembers days. We remember moments.
• What greater thing is there for two human souls than to feel that they are joined for life. (George Eliot)
• What therefore God has joined together, let no man put asunder. (Mark 10:9)

from the Book of Common Prayer

Give them wisdom and devotion in the ordering of their common life that each may be to the other a strength in need, a counselor in perplexity, a comfort in sorrow, and a companion in joy. Amen

I Cross My Heart

(George Strait - music and words by Steve Doroff and Eric Kaz)

Our love is unconditional, we knew it from the start.
I see it in your eyes, you can feel it from my heart.
From here on after let's stay the way we are right now,
And share all the love and laughter
That a lifetime will allow.

I cross my heart and promise to
Give all I've got to give to make all your dreams come true.
In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

You will always be the miracle that makes my life complete,
And as long as there's a breath in me, I'll make yours just as sweet.
As we look into the future, it's as far as we can see,
So let's make each tomorrow be the best that it can be.

I cross my heart and promise to
Give all I've got to give to make all your dreams come true.
In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine.

And if along the way we find a day it starts to storm,
You've got the promise of my love to keep you warm.
In all the world you'll never find a love as true as mine,
A love as true as mine.

For my Dad with all my Love...

Your little girl is all grown up
and has found a love so true,
but a special place in my heart
will always belong to you.

Real Life Wedding Vows...

Do you Chris, promise to always agree with Suzanne, in rightness or in wrongness, forsaking all logic, thus saving a fortune in marriage counseling and legal fees, for as long as you both shall live?

Wedding Poem for Gift Album

(adapted by Donna in MB from a poem by Jean Gifford)

(Alternate second verse for album without photo splits on the pages)

Choose your favorite photos
Then remove the plastic sheet,
Apply some photo splits and then
Place your picture, neat!

The road is bright before us
as hand in hand we start,
One mind, one soul, one heart.

To the Bride and Groom

(Grace Mandry)

May friends and family be your anchor
May contentment always reign
May your love be everlasting
And your glass filled with champagne

Wedding ABC's

(compiled by Denny Davis)

A - Announcement, Anticipation, Aisle, Attendants, Altar
B - Bride, Bridesmaids, Best Man, Bridal Bouquet, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, Breaking the Glass
C - Church, Cake, Clergy, Couple, Candles, Caterers, Ceremony, Choir, Champagne, Commitment, Cutting the Cake
D - Decisions, Dress, DJ, Dance, Dream Come True, Doves, Deadlines, Dearly Beloved...
E - Engagement Ring, Engagement Party, Engagement Announcement, Entertainment, Eternity
F - Family and Friends, Flowers, Flower Girl, Fathers, First Dance
G - Groom, Groomsmen, Guests, Guest book, Gifts, Gown, Garter, breaking the Glass
H -Honeymoon, Hands, Here Comes the Bride, Heirloom, Hair, Handkerchief, Head Table
I - Invitation, I Do, I Will, I ___ Take Thee ___, Introducing..., I now pronounce you..., I Thee Wed...
J - Justice of the Peace, Joined in marriage, Jewelry, Jokes, Jumping the Broom
K - Keepsakes, Kiss, you may Kiss your bride, Knife for cutting the cake
L - Love, Leg (garter), Limousine, License
M - Marriage Certificate, Minister, Maid of Honor, Matron of Honor, Mothers, music
N - Newlyweds, something New, Now and Forever, newspaper announcement
O - Opening Gifts, Our Song, Organist, something Old
P - Priest, Presents, Parents, Pastor, Planning, Prayer, Photographer, Program, Proposal
Q - Question (who, when where, how), Quotes (advice), Quill Pen
R - Rehearsal, Relatives, Reception, Rings, Ring Bearer, Receiving Line, Roses, Rabbi
S - Showers, Songs at Wedding, Seven Blessings, Stealing the Bride, Sixpence, Something Old..., Stationary
T - Toss (bouquet and garter), Together Forever, This Diamond Ring, Tuxedos, Toast, Tie, Temple, Two become One, Tara Brooch
U - Ushers, Us, Unity Candle
V - Vows, Veil, Vocalist
W - Wedding, Will You Marry Me, With This Ring..., Walk Down the Aisle, White Dress, Wine, Wedding Bells
X - Xtra Special Memories, Xtra Special Moments, Xtra Special Love
Y - Youth (childhood photos), Yes, Years of Happiness Ahead
Z - Zoom (close up photos)

Apache Wedding Prayer

Now you will feel no rain, for each
of you will be shelter to the other.

Now you will feel no cold, for each
of you will be warmth to the other.

Now there is no more loneliness, for each
of you will be companion to the other.

Now you are two persons,
But there is only one life before you.

Go now to your dwelling place
To enter into the days of your togetherness

And may your days be good
and long upon the earth.

Poems to go with disposable cameras at a wedding reception

See Wedding Photo Ideas

Poem for Seed Packet Wedding Favors

These seed we give are a symbol of our love.
Planted like our vows grown with care and love .
Watch them grow as the years go by.
Nurtured with Gods watchful eyes and his unending love.

The Bride, The Bridegroom and the Bubbles

(Grace Mandry, used with permission from the author)

Why do we blow bubbles to wish them well?
Their existence is brief - as is their farewell
Fragile, translucent, round rainbows that fly
A touch, and they're gone in the blink of an eye
Perhaps in their transience a lesson is learned
A lifetime of love must be nurtured and earned
Passion is fleeting, but compassion sustains
Beauty may vanish, but devotion remains.

The Groom and the Garter

(Grace Mandry, used with permission from the author)

The elegant bridegroom, dignified and refined
With pride and delight weds his sweet valentine
As tradition precludes all pretense and surprise
The bride's lacy garter is his promised prize
With a flourish he flings it while the bachelors wait
When the garter is captured, then they all celebrate

Hankie Baby Bonnet

I made one for my granddaughter. I used a decorative handkerchief that had been my mother-in-law's. It had very fine crocheted lace around the edges. I folded the handkerchief almost in half (the lace formed 2 rows that framed the baby's face. The fold was plain and I ran a gathering stitch on the fold and pulled it tight, forming a circle, tied the thread in a knot. I then made ribbon rosette for either side of the front of the bonnet and had ribbon ties sewed under the rosettes. Hope these directions are clear enough. I have seen bonnets with more decorations which you could do also.

Here is the poem that goes with the Hankie Baby Bonnet:

I'm just a little hankie, as square as square can be,
but with a stitch or two, they make a bonnet out of me.
I'll be worn from the hospital, or on Christening Day,
Then, I'll be neatly pressed and carefully put away.
Then on the Wedding Day, as I've always been told,
Every well-dressed bride must have something old.
So what would be more fitting than to find little old me,
With a few stitches snipped, and a Wedding hankie I'll be!
And if perchance it is a boy, some day he'll surely wed,
So to his Bride he can present the hankie once worn on his head.

For A SPECIAL BABY

(For baby boy Handkerchief baby bonnet)

Mother's son will find good use
For the square, when he's a young man
He'll give it to his sweetheart
When he asks her for her hand.

Life is to Share

A silver tea set, shining bright,
Romantic in the candle light.
Appliances costly, copper and brass,
Clothes of linen, China and glass.
These are gifts, lovely and rare,
Showered on the bridal pair.

But I would give with all wedding bands,
The joy of laboring with loving hands.
The pleasure that comes with painting a chair,
And the love that grows with the chores we share.
If I had my way, I'd make it a law,
Each bride gets a paintbrush,
Each groom a saw!

Sentiments Wedding Gift Album

On the first page I did a poem about Your journey begins today...
The 2nd page had their name with "est. May, 29, 1999" on it with doves and flowers and on the opposite side a border for a wedding picture.
The next 2 are labeled the honeymoon with suitcases and plane border.
Next is Our first Home pages with the house and yard stickers on the right side. ( Still room to mount a cropped picture or journal)
Next page is Our first dinner guests with the knife fork and spoon overlapped with a bow on them
Then Things that keep us busy...one side for her one for him then I border one side with things he likes to do fish hunt fire engine since he is a fireman.
Money In and Money out is the next pages with money stickers for bills, house payments etc.
Summer border is next, then Thanksgiving Blessings, then Christmas and I titled it Starting our own traditions, then New Years Eve page, Winter after that, then our first Anniversary.

I will give them a box of splits and a black pen to go with it. If they like it they can get more stuff if not then they just have to stick the pictures in and they are done. I also had it embossed. (Marie C.)

Wedding Pages

• Using one of your wedding colors cut 3 rectangles of paper. The sizes should be about 3" x 4"; 3"x 6" and 3" x 8". Stack them on the page so they look like a 3 tiered wedding cake. Cut photos of cutting the cake to fit on the strips (1 on the top layer, 1 or 2 on the middle layer and 2 on the bottom layer). Decorate the "cake" with flower stickers.
• Crop photos of the gifts being opened so they are small squares or rectangles. Mat the photos on slightly larger pieces of paper. Stack the "gift" shape photos on the page - overlapping some if possible. Draw bows with a pen or use sticker bows. (Karen H. CMC)
• Cut glass shapes out of paper or use die-cuts. Cross the stems over each other and adhere at the bottom of the page. along with the title "The Toast". Cut various size circle from paper and adhere to the page to look like champagne bubbles. Put circle cut photos on some of the bubbles.
• Crop photos in bell shapes and use the title "Wedding Bells"
• For a country style wedding use the title "Just Hitched" and decorate the page with boots and hats.

Things to Include in a Wedding Album

How you make your wedding album will depend on the size and type of wedding you have and your personality. Some people make a large formal album just of their wedding. Others opt for a more informal album that incorporates photos from their courtship, honeymoon and first home. Still others have a formal wedding album and put informal photos from the wedding in their family albums.

• when and how you met...was it love at first sight?
• first date, first kiss, etc. (maybe not too many details about the "etc."!)
• courtship progress - was it "slow and steady" or "whirlwind"...and were there "speed bumps" along the way?
• favorites as a couple - places to eat, your song, etc.
• memorabilia from your dating days - cards, letters, ticket stubs, programs, etc.
• the proposal - who, when, where and how
• reaction of friends and family when you told them
• picking out rings, setting the date, etc.
• engagement party - photos, gifts, etc.
• wedding planning - bridal fairs, shopping, receipts, photos, etc.
• announcements from the paper or that you sent out
• showers - invitations, guest list, gift list, cards received, etc.
• bachelor party, bridal tea, etc.
• pre-bridal photos or trying on "the dress" photos
• rehearsal dinner - guest list, photos, etc.
• rehearsal - it's fun to compare the informal rehearsal photos with the "real thing"
• wedding memorabilia - invitation, license, program, napkins, cards, pressed flowers, etc.
• a copy of your vows - words from these make great photo captions and page toppers
• lyrics to songs sung at the wedding - these also make good captions and page toppers
• photos taken by friends - the professional photographer can't be everywhere so encourage others to take photos, especially before the ceremony and at the reception
• guest book - if you want to incorporate this in your album either use scrapbook pages or use paper the size that will fit in the album and be sure the guests only sign on one side
• best wishes - have paper and pens available at the reception for people to write their best wishes
• photo close-ups - the ring, joined hands, flowers, decorations, candles, cake, etc.
• location photos - photos of the outside of the church, reception hall and surrounding area
• professional photos - I won't list the various photos they will likely take - you will find that info in bridal books and magazines. But be sure to let the photographer know the specific photos that are most important to you
• honeymoon - ask others (fellow guests or staff wherever you are staying) to take photos of the two of you together
• newlywed stuff - the first rent receipt, utility bills, grocery receipt, car payment, etc.

Honeymoon Page Idea

If you only have a few photos from your honeymoon or dating years but still want to do something special in your album:
Cut some of the photos into heart shapes and also cut paper into heart shapes to journal on. Add poems and quotes to fill in space. If you want to be really sentimental you could cut a photo of each of you into the shape of half of a heart and put them together on the page with an appropriate quote.

I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance,
A church filled with family and friends.
I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for,
He said one that would make me his wife.